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Anyone know how PHEV batteries are made impervious to frequent, almost daily charging? Nothing from my reading suggests otherwise except for that Professor Jeff Dhan battery that is expected to last 4,000 charge cycles:
At the Tesla Autonomy Event in April, Elon Musk said the Disruptors of Detroit were working on a new battery pack that would last a cool million miles, and said it would be available next year. Now Tesla battery research partner Jeff Dahn and his team have released a paper in which they describe...
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I thought many types of batteries crap out after 1,500 cycles? That's give or take about four years of daily charging.
For HEVs, replacement cost of the Ni-MH battery is $3k or so so that's nothing but for PHEV's, could it cost like $5-7.5k easily?
Also, it occurred to me that for Ni-MH on our 16 RAV4H, these only operate between 30-70% SoC so even with memory effects on the battery, it probably doesn't matter anyway. Not sure how it is with Li-ion batteries though with little memory effect but more limited charge cycles.
Found it:
Depth of discharge also applies to Li-ion.
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